Chief complaints in medical emergencies: Do they relate to underlying disease and outcome? the Charité Emergency Medicine Study (CHARITEM)

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 103-108

  Mockel, Martin ^a   Searle, Julia ^a   Muller, Reinhold ^c   Slagman, Anna ^a   Storchmann, Harald ^a   Oestereich, Philipp ^a   Wyrwich, Werner ^a   Ale Abaei, Angela ^b   Vollert, Joern O ^a   Koch, Matthias ^b   Somasundaram, Rajan ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Campus Benjamin Franklin ^*  (Germany)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

diagnosis; emergency medicine; outcome assessment; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DYSPNEA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; THORAX PAIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAUSALITY; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84874941217     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: 14735695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e328351e609     Document Type: Article

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